He has the body of a horse, with a single long horn projecting from his forehead. He combines in himself a love of purity and the strength of a monster. He is usually pure white in color. As a subject of tapestries in the Middle Ages, the unicorn represents the Scottish arms. He cats no living vegetation and never treads upon green grass. His horn, when ground up and powdered, was believed to have medicinal purposes as an antidote against poison. In the sixteenth century, a gold coin equal to eighteen shillings Scots was circulated in Scotland and was known as a unicorn. The unicorn was never captured or killed by those who hunted it. 1 THE FUNERAL was over. Durell stood quietly in the rain, watching the mourners in the small Chinese cemetery. The rain was heavy and warm, one of those quick storms out of the Malacca Straits that flooded the drains, gutters and canals of the city. It brought no relief from the heat. “Let’s go,” Charley Lee said.
